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Cleanliness, warmth, and wholesome, cooling, nutritious 

 food, are likewise valuable aids in combating this disease. 

 But whatever measures are taken, they must be prompt, 

 for inflammation of the lungs runs its course with rapidity 

 and intensity, and, while we pause to consider what is best 

 to be done, saps the vital energies of the patient." 



The most fruitful source of inflammation of the lungs 

 in our climate is dust inhaled from their beds, which are 

 too often found under old houses or shelters, where there 

 is either no bedding, or it is not changed as often as it 

 should be. Thousands of hogs are annually either lost or 

 seriously diseased in Georgia from sleeping in dust. Such 

 beds not only cause inflammation of the lungs, but breed 

 lice and the mange insect. As preventives are always 

 cheaper than remedies, farmers will find it to their interest 

 to give more attention to the sleeping places of their hogs. 



No matter what be the breed, or how well they may be 

 otherwise cared for, the stock will be inferior and sickly if 

 allowed to sleep in dust. The seeds of disease are often 

 thus sown, and remain apparently dormant for months, 

 when it is developed into a serious malady by changes of 

 temperature, or food, or sudden fattening, or reduction in 

 flesh. 



ENTERITIS. 



" This disease consists in inflammation of one or more of 

 the coats of the intestines, and is capable of being pro- 

 duced by various irritating causes, as the foul are of badly 

 ventilated styes, unwholesome food, etc. 



" The symptoms are dullness, loss of appetite, constipa- 

 tion, spasms or convulsions, continued restless motion, 

 either to and fro or round and round, staggering gait, and 

 evident symptoms of suffering." 



Tnatment A warm bath, followed by strict attention to 

 the comfort of the patient, castor oil, calomel, rhubarb, as 

 purgatives, and small doses of turpentine, given with the 

 food, will prove beneficial. 



Animals thus affected should be kept to themselves, and 



